Dec 8, 2024
Redirecting misbehavior is a powerful, healthy alternative to punishment, permissiveness and bribing when faced with challenging behavior from adults or kids.
Teacher 1: It’s changed me in dealing with children. As far as the redirecting behaviors are excellent, and finding the mistaken goals.
Teacher 2: It’s allowed me to look at kids behavior in a different way, kind of step back, and think, “Well what’s the reason why he or she’s acting out?” and kind of see it from their perspective. They may have a good reason why they’re acting out and then I need to handle that a little bit differently than just handing out consequences.
Teacher 3: Right now we’re trying to find different ways to improve classroom behavior, you know despite the traditional ways, and I think this gives another turn, because it has given me the opportunity to identify different goals such as attention and wants and things that the students want and ways for me to deal with the students.
Parents: We’ve become more closer as a community because you work with these people eight hours a day so you really need to have something for them so everybody’s not at each other’s throat, and you can deal with them differently, instead of a punishment/reward type of thing.
Teacher 1: I’ve seen children solving their own problems more instead of me solving them, and I’ve seen them become less punitive. I still hear some you know, “Let’s give them detention or put them on the wall,” but more I’m hearing, “Let’s see if we can talk about our feelings and that type of thing” and that’s not something, those aren’t skills that we had before.
